ray-grass
\ʁɛ.ɡʁɑs\
The verdict
“ray-grass” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante herbacée de la famille des Poacées, employée pour les pelouses, les prairies artificielles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ray-grass · ray-grass · French
ray-grass · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ray-grass |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ.ɡʁɑs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
ray-grass is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɛ.ɡʁɑs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante herbacée de la famille des Poacées, employée pour les pelouses, les prairies artificielles.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ray-grass in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ray-grass, spelled R-A-Y---G-R-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Plante herbacée de la famille des Poacées, employée pour les pelouses, les prairies artificielles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ray-grass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le ray-grass anglais local Belvédère peut fournir 2.500 à 4.000 UF/ha de novembre à mai. D’excellente qualité fourragère il est intéressant par la précocité de sa pousse à l’automne.
Voilà deux ans que les producteurs de lait à comté du Jura s’en sont entichés. Leur but : planter plus de trèfle et de ray-grass pour leur vaches.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.